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@mercime I did not blamed anyone, i blamed the attitude. Any premium or free theme or plugin that will be used with Buddypress and has support for Buddypress must be treated in a better way as they promote through their use the Buddypress product. From what i can see Buddypress tries to offer maximum compatibility with any theme.

So, the team can learn from premium plugins and themes the users offer when they have questions. That should be the attitude, according to the Buddypress statement.

Again, this is a SUPPORT forum not at I Do not SUPPORT people asking and ways to improve our services.

Pagelines offers their support, i expected a combined support where all 3 parties can learn not to act like there is a war out there. The option it is simple. You can choose to help or ignore the post. If a person asks for support offer it because they need it not because they want to disturb ones day.

Are you permitted to give us authorization to use that plugin and if so are you authorizing us and others to use that plugin? It isn’t in the repo and since it doesn’t say it is gpl, I am required to ask those questions.

@mercime

Sorry for delayed response. I thought the thread was dead. Nevertheless, thanks for your directions.

It seems I chose the wrong words to describe my problem. The problem was “after the compatibility process is over, the site doesn’t look 2012-ish, with bp-default styles in BP parts.” After the compatibility process is done successfully (which I did), the theme “works fine”, but doesn’t look fine. So in other words, how to make the BP part look like 2012.

Both the BP-compatibility-pack approach and your approach worked fine, except, the theme CSS is (understandably) the same (bp-default). I ended up modifying the bp.css to make it look like it belongs to 2012 theme. I also “hard-coded” (so to speak) the BP specific changes in my child theme itself (added the bp-template-pack.php part with some modifications to functions.php), and a few minore changes to BP templates, so that my child theme is BP-compatible out of the box (no need of plugin or external CSS). Will upload the child theme somewhere and post a link here as I get to it.

Thank you @mercime for your help.

Thank you @mercime.

A small follow-up question on user sign-on/registration. As you clarified, there is a unified login for all wp and bp/bb components. Does it mean that the user profiles (wp profiles and bp extended profiles) are also unified/sync’d?

With regards to the twenty twelve – Buddypress compatibility, let me elaborate my set-up a little.

Twenty twelve is not compatible with buddypress out of the box (like bp-default theme is), so one needs to use bp-compatibility-pack plugin (or can be done manually) to copy-paste buddypress specific .php templates and other files to the theme directory. This also includes buddypress style sheet (bp.css) which seems to be a copy-pasted part from bp-default style.css.

Thus, when you make twenty twelve compatible with buddypress (I am doing this on child theme of twenty twelve), the styles of buddypress components resembles to bp-default (rather than twenty twelve). If one deletes all the css from bp.css, one gets plain styles (these are twenty twelve styles but as there is nothing in twenty twelve styles for bp, they are as good as plain). Fixing these plain styles would be like making a completely new theme from scratch (like styling _s theme) for bp component pages/sections. There doesn’t seem to be a simple workaround about this.

Hey Paul, thanks for responding, I appreciate your help brother.

I’m using a modded version of Elegant Themes’ Lucid that I’m in the process of styling for buddypress at this very moment. Though, even when using the default bp theme that comes with buddypress, I have the exact same issues.

If you have any other questions for me, I’ll be happy to answer. I appreciate your help in advance.

Also silently asking for an update on the achievements plugin, I had the same errors that others were mentioning to you on the WP 3.5 upgrade the other week.

Actually, to answer some of my own questions, it seems item_id is only the group id for a first message (which these types of message will always be).

secondary_id is used if there’s a reply/comment to a message, so for these purposes I can keep it as 0.

And the mptt values get updated with new replies and comments, so, again, for first messages such as the ones I’ll be inserting, a value of 0 for everything should be fine.

Would still like to know if there’s a BP function I can use to do the job though – and any potential pitfalls I might be missing. I am by no means an experienced coder…

Cheers

@mercime thanks for that.

But when I change the subject of the Activation Email it does not change anything. The subject is the same as before.

Also there is no option to send a welcome email. Only a welcome private message, which isn’t what I was looking for because I wanted to provide them with their username and password in the email (and obviously they’d need that to login and see the private message).

Is there any other ways to get this done?

Hi JJJ,

Hmmmm…
This is my first BP site so please forgive the seemingly ignorant statements and questions 🙂

I thought that BP created the Member role when it was first installed?
It is possible that another plugin I use did, but I’m not sure…
I definitely did not add_role for Member myself…
So you are saying that BP never created a ‘Member’ role at any time (i.e. it is not a default role for BP)?

I just tested on the site. In addition to to not being able to see the WP Toolbar, the users with Role = ‘No role for this site’ cannot post activity, etc in BP (as I guessed since they have no Capabilities.

Ok, I’m getting this now and have some new questions.

1: How can I list all of the different blogs somewhere? Not necessarily most popular but all blogs in some form of list that people can look through.

2: How can I make some of the plugins non network? There doesn’t seem to be any option for making network available or not?

3: Same as above but for widgets.

4: I see that users can access their blogs once logged in, however, the network administrator needs to set up blogs for users. Is there a way to allow users to create their own blogs after they have registered?

5: BuddyPress – I installed BP from the network admin however, all of the plugins seem to be networked again? Is this so that blog owners can have the forums which are a part of BP or something else? I was wanting to make BP available only on the main site.

PS: I realize some of these questions are WP so no requirement to respond on those and I can post them there. Just figured I’d ask 🙂